Mngwa

Mngwa
Prop. tax.	Felidae
Country	Tanzania
Region(s)	East Africa

Mngwa is a cryptid felidae said to dwell along the coasts of East Africa, the name having been introduced into popular Western use by a British colonial administrator, Captain William Hichens, who, in 1937, reported to the journal Discovery on local belief regarding the creature, describing it as "a gigantic cat, striped like a tabby, but as large as a donkey and far more ferocious and fearsome than any lion" that was blamed for the deaths of villagers during periodic raids.

Resources

• Hichens, W. (December 1937), The Terror of the Coastlands, "African Mystery Beasts", Discovery: The Popular Journal of Knowledge (London: Mercury House) 18 (216): 369-373, https://web.archive.org/web/20161111060057/http://www.strangeark.com:80/reprints/beasts.html